Refer to : Centos setting password for user, but still can’t log in on it
Use another to check the log by with sudo tail -f /var/log/secure
It shows something like this,
Jul 4 16:24:06 iz2ze86eplnjdk8exdjimjz sshd[17288]: pam_tally2(sshd:auth): user lv (1002) tally 31, deny 5
From the output it shows the reason, then solve it.
For the above case, the user is locked for enter too many uncorrect passwd before.
Check it with pam_tally2 -u lv
Login Failures Latest failure From
lv 32 07/04/20 16:24:59 115.171.85.163
Reset it with pam_tally2 -u lvi -r --reset
Login Failures Latest failure From
lv 32 07/04/20 16:24:59 115.171.85.163
Check it again pam_tally2 -u lv
Login Failures Latest failure From
lv` 0
After reset on lv, lv can login successful.
Here is the login strategy
cat /etc/pam.d/sshd
1 #%PAM-1.0
2 auth required pam_tally2.so deny=5 unlock_time=600 even_deny_root root_unlock_time=60
refer to:
how-to-set-password-policies-in-linux
Linux安全策略配置-pam_tally2身份验证模块
https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1026263